Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formally renounce all plans to give Germany a hand on the trigger of nuclear weapons. Plans for nuclear sharing such as the MLF were designed originally to satisfy and forestall Germany's supposed craving for atomic weapons. Although the MLF would give the Germans no more than a veto on the use of certain ship-borne missiles, the Soviets suspect that this might lead to more extensive German control in the future. They do not believe that Bonn will be content with such veto-power...
...very likely. The Western Allies have proposed that Spandau be closed and Hess transferred to a less costly jail. But the Russians have a veto, and in their wariness toward the West are not likely to sympathize with moves to reduce the costs of incarceration...
...Gorotoland case be dealt with in the U.N. Finally, the U.N. Security Council does act on its own. In a scene described with skill and impressive authenticity, the Council debates the issue and is on the verge of censuring the U.S.-when the American delegation casts its first veto in history...
Part of the trouble is Robert Welch himself. Though he agreed under pressure a few years ago to put some young men in important administrative posts, he still runs the society with an iron hand, brooking no opposition to his ideas and acknowledging no power to veto his decisions. Moreover, the society, founded on the notion that a Communist conspiracy was taking over the U.S., has lost some of its zip and fervor at a time when the U.S. is fighting an open war against Communists in Viet...
...dinosaur is the Harvard Advocate, a tradition-bound and, according to Kuttner, slick monolith that has long cornered the undergraduate writing market while publishing relatively little undergraduate material. The advocate's unsatisfactory state is Scorpion's raison d'etre. But Kuttner, with his staff of six (he gave himself veto power over everything the rest of the staff does, but promised never to use it, "Or else what's the sense of having a staff?") is not out to get the Advocate, only to improve it. "The Advocate needs a pep pill -- that's us. The time is ripe...